I imagine he'll never 'retire" as there's always racing going on. Whatever we may feel about him personally or his doping allegations/etc, he's somewhat a big name/face in terms of the biz/industry. Perhaps races provide him with appearance fees and a chance to spread his message.

Nevertheless, I often have a bit of a hard time with the 'cancer campaign' & riding- never have completely seen the connections between how he's branded himself and Livestrong. It seems a bit discordant. I think there's more serious things confronting humanity than cancer. How about clean water, hunger, racial/sexual equality, etc?

I agree with Fish n Chips on this one, yes there may be more pressing issues as a species such as our use of the planet, water shortages, hiv aids etc etc but cancer does blight a lot of lives as I personally can testify and Im sure plenty of others can too - as with all ilnesses, diseases etc anyone who can raise the profile should do.

Yes there are other, more pressing things, but I admire him for what he/his marketing machine have done in the support of advances to fight cancer and support those who have suffered from it.

Clearly, BIKEDOG has never suffered from cancer and god forbid he ever does.

The man is world famous, one of best ever cyclists who had cancer, nearly died and recovered enough to win seven Tours de France.

What cause do you think is he is going to dedicate his fame, fortune and influence towards.

Ask a cancer sufferer who takes all his inspiration from Lance Armstrong, continues to fight this horrendous disease, struggles through chemotherapy sessions without loosing the will to live and recover due to Lance Armstrong's story.

Just as soon as you can claim to have that level of positive influence on thousands or even one dying person you can retort with some credibility.

Ask the 28million people with cancer and the further millions of friends and family of the victims if sexual equality should take precedence.

Rather than folks castigating the messenger because you don't like the message/post:
For what it's worth, Terry Fox (a Canadian cancer victim who ran 3/4 across Canada in the early 1980s) is a more laudable figure (IMHO) in the 'fight' against cancer and end of life hospice care. His foundation since late 1980s has rather quietly raised over a half billion dollars (about 2x LAF). Anyway, it's reasonably safe to say that we've all been affected in varied ways by cancer and benefited by research/hospice/etc.

Check out charitynavigator.org to get a read on LAFs relative contributions towards alleviating cancer suffering and research. It's a nice, modest effort- considering the amount of money globally that goes to cancer research and the advertisement budget thrust towards getting those contributions. Personally, I feel there's higher priorities facing humanity globally right now than just cancer.